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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Dis-Owning Nature: The BRCA Gene Patents and the Supreme Court

PANEL George M. Church Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute
Glenn Cohen Harvard Law School Judy Norsigian Our Bodies, Ourselves
Tania Simoncelli Former Science Advisor, ACLU MODERATED BY Sheila
Jasanoff Harvard Kennedy School ABOUT THE SPEAKER Chris Hansen
joined the ACLU in 1973. He spent 10 years at the NYCLU
specializing in complex litigation seeking reform of the mental
retardation and mental health systems. He then spent 10 years as
the Associate Director of the Children’s Rights Project of the ACLU
specializing in complex litigation seeking reform of child welfare
systems and in school desegregation. Since the mid-1990’s, Mr.
Hansen has been a staff attorney at the ACLU and worked on a wide
variety of cases. He led the ACLU’s decades-long, successful battle
to ensure that speech on the Internet receive the highest First
Amendment protection. Most recently, he led the ACLU’s effort to
invalidate patents granted on human genes. Mr. Hansen has argued
cases in the US Supreme Court, and many of the federal courts of
appeals, federal district courts, and state trial and appellate
courts. Mr. Hansen retired from the ACLU in 2013.